by American Gastroenterological Association A medical illustration of Clostridioides difficile bacteria, formerly known as Clostridium difficile, presented in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publication entitled, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019. Credit: CDCIn the first comprehensive evidence-based guideline on the use of fecal microbiota-based therapies for gastrointestinal disease, the American Gastroenterological...
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Fecal microbial transplants show lack of predictability when no prior antibiotic treatment is given to recipient
by University of Alabama at Birmingham Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A fecal microbial transplant—giving a recipient fecal matter from a donor to change the recipient’s gut microbial community in the colon—has been a successful last resort therapy for people with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection after multiple rounds of suppressive antibiotics have eliminated the recipient microbial...